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PG Roxette |
"The Loneliest Girl In The World" |
The Loneliest Girl In The World +1 |
All love begins in loneliness, |
2 |
Torn Between Two Worlds |
"The Woman That Never Was" |
single |
in the acceptance of loneliness as our emotional origin |
3 |
Eye of Melian |
"Light" |
Light 5 |
and thus human contact as its only resonant resolution. |
4 |
Blackwater Drowning |
"Mortal Coil" |
single |
The denial of loneliness, |
5 |
Nocturnal Pestilence |
"Standing Aside" |
single |
and with it the denial of the need for incorporating other people's needs |
6 |
We are Legend |
"Fallen Angel" |
single |
into your own abstract worldview and chosen actions, |
7 |
Snow White In The Dark |
"Let´s Fight" |
single |
is at least personal misanthropy and collective nihilism, |
8 |
Neperia |
"The Story Is Told" |
Ptesmata |
and probably either elemental self-loathing or a dubiously detached loathing for mortal specificity. |
9 |
Shereign |
"Remedy" |
single |
You can't really detach. |
10 |
Mindmaze |
"Forever Too Late" |
single |
Detachment is a mythology of separatism, |
11 |
Forgotten North |
"Hinter den Wolken" |
single |
and there is nowhere to draw your petty new borders |
12 |
Brachmond |
"Labyrinth" |
single |
except through other people's grandly existing nations or aspirationally notional states. |
13 |
Eluveitie |
"Aidus" |
single |
There are no meaningfully benevolent dictators |
14 |
FEST VAINQUEUR |
"Venous Blood Vessel" |
GLARE |
or enduring utopian cults, |
15 |
Imperial Circus Dead Decadence |
"禊祓の神産は宣い、禍祓の贖罪は誓う。feat.あらまり" |
殯――死へ耽る想いは戮辱すら喰らい、彼方の生を愛する為に命を讃える――。 |
because a stentorian unity based on ceremonial antipathy |
16 |
THOUSAND EYES |
"BETRAYER" |
single |
can only effectively nurture hatred, |
17 |
POPPiNG EMO |
"BAD LOVE" |
single |
and in sustained isolation can only ultimately deploy it inwardly. |
18 |
Li-V-RAVE |
"TIME LEAP" |
single |
We are defined by our ability to coexist, |
19 |
ドクダミ(CV.川井田夏海) |
"あかね組活動日誌 ~亥班~" |
single |
and thus by how well our eudaemonic legalisms |
20 |
CYCLONISTA |
"SAIKO NO HIBIE" |
PROLOGUE 3 |
cultivate the conditions for joy. |
21 |
Aimer |
"wavy flow" |
single |
The Constitution is not a scripture, |
22 |
miwa |
"Bloom" |
single |
neither literally nor substitutionally. |
23 |
福原 遥 |
"スキップサイダー" |
single |
We cannot be redeemed by reverence for it, |
24 |
Sou |
"sakura breeze" |
single |
adherence to it, |
25 |
珀 |
"空梁月落" |
眩耀 3 |
or pedantry over its implications. |
26 |
Kana Hanazawa |
"KIMINO SHIRANAI MONOGATARI - from CrosSing" |
KIMINO SHIRANAI MONOGATARI - from CrosSing +1 |
We cannot ask its authors to rule on the propriety of individual ownership of assault rifles, |
27 |
楠木 ともり |
"遣らずの雨" |
遣らずの雨 |
or whether we have an established tradition of not looking for answers inside of ourselves |
28 |
cana÷biss |
"watashitachinosenso" |
SIGNAL / watashitachinosenso 2 |
by sticking our heads up our own asses, |
29 |
マルシィ |
"君のこと" |
Memory |
but this is not because their formative wisdom is occluded |
30 |
UtaKata |
"宣戦前夜" |
single |
or their self-evident asses are inaccessible, |
31 |
DISH// |
"Starting Over (in 2022)" |
single |
it's because they don't have to live with the catastropic consequences of the answers, |
32 |
Monica Naranjo |
"Polvo Vacío" |
Polvo Vacío +1 |
or the destabilizing consequences of the questions. |
33 |
Dagny |
"Brightsider" |
single |
Every law is a text |
34 |
Güneş |
"777" |
Atlantis |
awaiting a textbook of its failure |
35 |
Star Cassette |
"So I Stay" |
Sound of the Universe |
that can teach us how to write the next one better. |
36 |
Betty Who |
"Blow Out My Candle" |
single |
The humanist idealism poured into the ink of the American founding documents |
37 |
MUNA |
"Sometimes - From "Fire Island"" |
single |
is not American exceptionalism but the idea that a society can, and can only, be governed by itself. |
38 |
iamamiwhoami |
"Walking on Air" |
Be Here Soon |
Subjecting this earnest set of contingent compromises to originalism |
39 |
Eden Hunter |
"Twenty." |
single |
is no more a viable living political philosophy |
40 |
Maggie Rogers |
"Want Want" |
single |
than preserving the recipe for medieval tinctures |
41 |
Lizzie Cates |
"The Romantic" |
single |
is a modern public health strategy, |
42 |
Maggie Lindemann |
"break me!" |
break me! +2 |
or a salve for the bullet holes |
43 |
Lauran Hibberd |
"I'm Insecure" |
I’m Insecure 3 |
in your child. |
44 |
LØLØ |
"THE FLOOR IS LAVA!!" |
THE FLOOR IS LAVA!! +2 |
One of the many crushing ironies scattered bountifully among our misguided current culture-war fronts |
45 |
Tunde Olaniran |
"Whipped Cream Daydream" |
single |
is that our public education system wasn't teaching the systemic power-effects of racism, |
46 |
snow ellet |
"Can't Hear The Phone" |
Can't Hear The Phone +1 |
even on the days the students are allowed out from under their desks, |
47 |
Sepha. |
"this busy place" |
single |
but is crucially responsible for exposing the systemic power-effects of everything |
48 |
James Ivy |
"Peace Sounds" |
single |
to each next generation who will have to try to further unravel them |
49 |
fats'e |
"headhigh" |
single |
in order to distribute that power more evenly |
50 |
Ryan Oakes |
"FUNERAL" |
FUNERAL +1 |
to the waiting |
51 |
The Mountain Goats |
"Training Montage" |
single |
and deserving. |
52 |
Motel |
"Bailando al Amanecer" |
single |
This country was written into existence by delusional eloquence |
53 |
Brendan Peyper |
"Meisies & Ouens Soos Jy (feat. Minke Brits)" |
single |
and a few ideas compassionate enough to transcend their hypocrisy, |
54 |
Eli Young Band |
"Chances Are" |
Love Talking |
by people who came here to escape a religious tyranny |
55 |
Isra Ramos |
"Chozetsu Dynamic! (Català)" |
Chozetsu Dynamic 3 |
without having to concede that religion and tyranny are facets |
56 |
Airbag |
"Finales Alternativos" |
single |
of a coin you cannot spend by spinning; |
57 |
The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness |
"Turning Red" |
single |
colonists |
58 |
Astronoid |
"Admin" |
Radiant Bloom |
who mistook colonialism and imperialism for disjunct factions or extricable impulses; |
59 |
Maximus |
"Tack ändå" |
single |
travelers who conflated tourism |
60 |
Hämatom |
"Ein Freund" |
single |
and exploration |
61 |
Nebelhaus |
"Auf Einem Jägergrab" |
Monument |
and discovery; |
62 |
Rockwasser |
"Ein Tag für uns" |
C'est la vie |
arrivals who looked at an unfamiliar civilization |
63 |
Herbst |
"Genug" |
single |
stretching far beyond their gaze |
64 |
Hexis |
"Nunquam" |
single |
and mistook it for a frontier |
65 |
Amon Amarth |
"Get in the Ring" |
single |
at the limit of their inherited myopia; |
66 |
The Halo Effect |
"The Needless End" |
The Needless End +3 |
slave lords cosplaying as federalists; |
67 |
Hypermass |
"Hivemind" |
Empyrean |
émigrés misunderstanding the allegory of the parting sea |
68 |
Wrang |
"Doodgeslagen onschuld" |
De vaendrig |
as if, once closed behind them, the sea could never be parted again. |
69 |
DAMPF |
"Winterland" |
The Arrival |
This country is defined by its constitution, not its Constitution, not anything capitalized, |
70 |
Defiatory |
"Apocalypse" |
Apokalyps |
and in this way is the same as every country, |
71 |
Temple of Void |
"A Sequence of Rot" |
Summoning the Slayer |
conclusively failed or optimistically still only inconclusively failing. |
72 |
Don't Drop the Sword |
"Sands Of Time" |
Prelude To The Age Of Heroes 3 |
Proud squalling toddlers climbing through a smashed window into the Capitol was a point of failure |
73 |
Battlelore |
"Minas Morgul" |
The Return of the Shadow |
for glass, |
74 |
Stratovarius |
"Survive" |
single |
but the point of failure for the society happened long before that: |
75 |
Merta |
"Laiva" |
single |
before Trump tried not to let go of power, |
76 |
Magistarium |
"No World Without Hero" |
Dreamlord Opera |
before he got it, |
77 |
Veter Daemonaz |
"Moon Sorcery - Single edit version" |
single |
before he failed to learn a value-system not based on hoarding power, |
78 |
Рожь |
"Аминь" |
single |
before we failed to teach him, |
79 |
Nebala |
"Ant Mér Sjalfri Þér" |
single |
and every other tiny terrified entitled child, |
80 |
black particles |
"disquietude" |
loss function |
that the gnawing void of loneliness inside of you |
81 |
My Diligence |
"The Matter, Form and Power" |
The Matter, Form and Power |
is just what it feels like when you are made of dizzily whirring blood |
82 |
Nebula Glow |
"Hyperheaven" |
single |
and set on the surface of a verdantly spinning rock, |
83 |
Astronoid |
"Sedative" |
Radiant Bloom |
and not a secret shame to be desperately hidden by crudely billowing suits |
84 |
Jackal Trades |
"The Glenboig Snap" |
single |
and tawdry empires. |
85 |
Limpopo Rhythm |
"Meet You" |
Like My Recent |
Love and hate both begin in loneliness. Everything begins in each of us |
86 |
Amabongwa |
"Deliwe" |
Izulu Motos |
and ends somewhere in the innumerably empty spaces in between us. |
87 |
Kabza De Small |
"Khusela (feat. Msaki)" |
single |
Like breath. Like songs. |
88 |
Nthabo |
"Husky Sound" |
single |
No fascist stipulation about when the next human's life begins |
89 |
BlaQRhythm |
"Amadolo" |
single |
changes the inalienable truth of their inalienness. |
90 |
Nativ Boii |
"Sapiens" |
Afro Century |
You are conceived as infinite potential, but nobody, once born, is from anywhere other than here. |
91 |
Shetta |
"Namsosomola" |
single |
We don't hold these truths in our small, furtive hands, |
92 |
Limpopo Rhythm |
"Te'va" |
Like My Recent |
the truths are our hands, |
93 |
The Algorithm |
"Inline Assembly" |
Data Renaissance |
reaching out like a fist to make you pay |
94 |
Astronoid |
"Decades" |
Radiant Bloom |
for something you both don't need |
95 |
This Wild Life |
"History - Kevin's Version" |
single |
and already have. |
96 |
Emm Gryner |
"Baker Street" |
single |
Yes: stronger glass, fewer guns, less-ingrown political parties, less-establishment-entrenching laws, less-ignorant electorates, more-critical textbooks, fewer burning fossils, fewer arsonist gods. |
97 |
Halocene |
"Everybody's Fool" |
single |
But all of those tactical eliminations only get us back to the point where we started: lonely, hungry, together, |
98 |
Control the Storm |
"Holding out for a Hero" |
single |
willing to become more perfect, made of chaos and glee, always fresh from a fight that solved nothing, or the hearings that try to insist that the story of the last fight will teach us how to not have the next one. |
99 |
Drewsif Stalin's Musical Endeavors |
"All Eyes On Me" |
single |
It's just begun. |